 All right. Hello. Welcome, everybody. So this is our second meeting for the year. And this is really going to be an exciting time in terms of where open ed is and what we're doing. And so we're going to have quite a few updates. So in terms of the agenda, we have two primary things. We're going to look at operation updates. And then we're going to look at a focus in terms of programming and the theme. So without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and get started and turn it over to Amy. Hello, everyone. We're so glad to see all of you. Thanks for joining us. So we're going to, for those of you who are returning and are used to our format, we're going to use a mentee meter to collect information. This has been a wonderful tool to get feedback and to be able to go back and look at that feedback as we're planning and making final decisions. So for those of you who are new, we recommend that you use a separate browser or device so that you have the presentation open on one screen and then mentee meter open on another so that you can participate fully in all of the feedback. You want to go to mentee.com and today the code is 8355 0000. We put the link for that in the chat if you just want to click on it, it should take you there. And I think we will begin with our first question. Excellent. So, where are you all from today? Where are you, which state are you? Are you joining us from a Canadian province or which country are you joining us from today? And I love, I always love to see the representation. We're just thrilled to have all 50 states represented at the conference last last year and we want to keep that going. I just want to add to our Canadian province and country participation. I see Alberta. I see Tejas. A state of confusion. Yes, I think some of this can relate to that. We're from New York. Lots of people from New York. Lots of people from Oklahoma and California and Texas. I see shout out to Rhode Island and Wisconsin, Ontario, Alberta. I'm so glad that you made time to join us today. And so we're going to start with one of our icebreaker questions. And so for those of you who made it to the conference last year, you probably remember the great Cheeto debate. This is very important. So what is your favorite kind of Cheetos? Oh, what are these people? None of the Cheetos. All of the Cheetos. Crunchy looks like it's, well, I don't know. No, I guess people are not eating Cheetos, but I have a feeling that that might be some of our Canadian friends who think that they have a superior brand. But we can continue to debate this at the conference this year. So okay, and I think now I am turning it over to Nicole. Wonderful. Thanks so much, Amy and Lee for getting us started. Nicole Allen, director of open education for Spark, and I'm here with my colleagues to give a little bit of an update on the conference operations. We are starting the second year of a two year commitment to support the open education conference. The conference is currently supported by a partnership between four organizations, which are open stocks, Spark, the university system of Maryland and the Colorado department of higher education. And then after the long time organizer of the conference step aside in 2019 and we're excited to come off of an excellent 2020 conference and support a successful 2021 conference, while also supporting a strategic planning process that's going to sort of decide the future of what comes next. So working in partnership with the steering committee and also the planning committees that are currently in the process of being formed. So I'm going to turn it over to Daniel from open stocks to share a little bit about the details of this year's open education conference. Excellent. So we are going to be remote again virtual again, which I am excited about. Last year's conference was absolutely incredible. The team did just an amazing job making it more than just a bunch of zooms but really making it something that was interactive and a great opportunity for networking and learning and apologies for the dog clicking noises in the back if you could hear those. So we will be remote, but hosted by the amazing folks over at the University of Maryland system. So I don't know maybe we'll have crabs sent around to everybody. Maybe not that seems like logistics nightmare. Nonetheless, market calendars October 18 to 22 2021. We'll have a call for proposals going out by the end of this month. And then the last and then registration will start to open in June. So mark your calendars we look forward to seeing you all there and all of your amazing proposals. Pretty soon. Thanks so much. Am I handing it over to Nicole. My turn actually muted. I was do thank you Daniel thank you Nicole. Spencer my name Spencer with the Colorado Department of Education so excited to be part of this group. Happy Friday everybody happy National Unicorn Day, I just learned about this day so hopefully you are enjoying your day, coming back from spring breaks and getting through that end of the term grind here we go. So, as mentioned, you know the strategic planning team has been toiling away working very hard and working to establish a strategic plan and governance model for this, this project moving forward for open ed, moving forward. The process again started in March, and kind of had some foundational background with the strategic planning group before then processes very open process running from March to September which I think we mentioned in the last call. This was a meeting by Franklin Street studio that was a consulting group, and the strategic planning team had their first meeting with with the group, which was a great introductory session, and they're a highly qualified group with a with a deep focus on de I so I think something that's really important to everybody in this call and everybody in this community. This reminder this process has been and will continue to be a very inclusive process so integrating feedback from the broader community conference attendees, these community calls which are really important to the work that we're doing, and operative future opportunities to provide more input as we make our way through the process so if you have input ideas please jot those down. So we can cultivate the fantastic thoughts and thought partnership from from this entire network as we move forward. So that's just a little bit on the strategic planning side of things. I will drop the link to our planning teams for all the subcommittees that you are familiar with perhaps at this point. And you can kind of see who's who's participating currently I think we have those updated, if not they'll be updated very soon. And now I am turning it over to Winnie to tell us a little bit more about the call for participation. So, the call for participation has been open. We have the interest forms still going to be open until April 30 for proposal reviewers so proposal reviewers will be able to review proposals. The proposal proposals that come in and kind of work on the programming side of the conference committee rules are currently being finalized already. So we kind of expect to hear an announcement of the names that will be going out for this year's committees. And I believe the link of being posted in the chat for the application of the proposals for the proposal reviewers. I think I'm passing it over to Emily. Hey all. How's everyone doing. Okay, well so we want to just give a little bit of an overview about our program from last year so we had eight general session topics that felt fell within our really big umbrella of reimagining open education. We ended up with 250 sessions through our call for proposals, and the vast majority of these live sessions were 25 minutes or 55 minutes in length. So that we had a five minute transition time between sessions. And we also had asynchronous and lightning talks that were in multiple format. Some feedback that we got was that some of the 25 minute sessions felt rushed right was like a 20 minute talk five minutes for questions. And then there was also the feedback that would be nice to have some session types that weren't recorded so people could really have a candid conversation without fear that was kind of going to be you know a public record sort of situation. So that's some of the feedback that we got and just kind of where we're coming from if anyone wasn't at the conference last year. And so we have some questions that are going to help us as we move forward with our planning for this coming year. And so through your mentee, could you respond to what values are at the heart of your open education work. So really trying to ground ourselves in the values and kind of the deepest place that we're coming from from this work that we're doing together. Thank you Lee for reposting the link to Mentimeter and the code is at the top of the slides. Okay social justice representation students diversity inclusion access equity is really big here in the center. We're really focusing a lot on belonging and representation. We're really focusing a lot on students access accessibility. Academic freedom beginning generosity. Anti racism solidarity. Anyone else want to chime in with things that I haven't said that that you're wanting to give voice to simplicity. Sorry Emily no I didn't type it in but I'm sitting here thinking also continuous improvement. Yeah, on so many levels right like from the conference planning and organizing perspective continuous improvement and our teaching continuous improvement and honestly living our lives. Right, like really on so so many levels quality learning. Yeah for me learning is deeply at the core like really effective learning is what drives me I think a lot of this work. Fantastic growth. So, definitely social justice equity access. These are some of the really big words here in the center community inclusion students of course students, but all sorts of kindness. Oh my goodness. So all sorts of beautiful values. Thank you all. Care I you know we really can see the impact of Mahabali and and the great keynote that and Mia Zamora like these threads that maybe I had not consciously thought about at all prior to that amazing keynote generosity. Well thank you this is really a beautiful place to come and ground ourselves and really a nice touchstone as we move forward thinking, not just about this 2021 conference really but maybe even the future of this movement and, you know, open ed more broadly. Okay, so anything else before we move on I appreciate people are still typing in, which is fantastic but it may also be time to move on. Can you call out culturally responsive I thought, I mean I have a whole bunch of themes around that too. Sorry. Yes. Yeah and I. That's right it's in a kind of darker color so it's not popping out but I agree culturally culturally responsive. And I like needs also it's very foundational right. Anti whiteness multiple people chiming in on that open information iteration. Well let's go ahead and move forward now. And so another open entry but a little bit longer if you like what topics are you most excited to learn about at open ed 21. I'm just going to scooch trying to get better visibility on my second screen here okay open publishing equity. Open pedagogy sustainability development models fair use and open education and social justice and open education, institutional supports integration of practices. Environmental justice, indigenous and openness research. Let's see student creation of resources creative ways to promote we are more with the open pedagogy, getting funding for our work and teacher to teacher collaborations. Again with sustainability open pedagogy and open education research. We have Facebook slash resources, social justice dismantling white supremacy through open ed student motivation. How to say excited about open ed and how to teach open pedagogy. Student community collaboration so really fleshing out what open pedagogy might mean we are in promotion. With capacity building, and again research and open pedagogy into institutional support. Norming open education as a practice or strategy decolonization integration of practices. Practical how to use successful systemic models to know that fast enough on that one. That's positive it comes back. Yes, and you know, I, I've tried to capture as many of them as I can see. But if other people want to highlight things that I've missed. And let's see, I'm going to throw a mentor chat. Oops. Hey guys I thought I was copying the Mentimeter chat and there's like something from a biochemistry thing in my chat instead of apologies for that so anyone who's not on Mentimeter through the chat in there again. Okay. And then there's a question are these results something we can peek at afterward to I would love to have this list on hand and Nicole. Yes, absolutely so we'll leave this open for people who weren't able to join this meeting live so if you're watching this recording up to 14 days after this meeting you'll be able to do that. Using the code at the top and then yeah we did that last year and we'll do it again this year because the plan is to sort of derive the program structure from this valuable data that everybody is contributing. And another new one that I happened to catch was kind of strategies for combating inclusive access programs so that's how to communicate more effectively sharing practices and sharing failures as well. Creating a community of practice. How to stop the publishers from co-opting terms like inclusive and equitable. We can try right we can try we are. Oh decolonization multiple times. Creative Commons certificate. Okay so successful systemic model to address institutional infrastructure and support universal access to knowledge that's one I couldn't get out before. Creative ways to promote we are. Social justice over there. Fair use in open education. So more with the copyright. Yeah, a lot of a lot of really fun like from the practical side. Social justice and anti racism work. What to do and maybe what not to do an open education. So resources open pedagogy of student. You know, pieces with students. Okay, so lots of really cool themes here and it will be nice to sit down with all of the data. And it's this will be really helpful for the program team to come back to as well as we move forward to getting the call for proposals. Written and out to the community. And then we start thinking about your proposals even though we don't have our formal call for proposals yet, because it will be coming. And we really want everyone who has something to bring to this open ed conversation to have a place within the program to bring that. Yes, and so looking at partnership across K 12 into higher ed privacy and surveillance and data governance. Okay, fantastic. Well, thank you all so much. We. Yeah, this is fantastic, really, really, really rich. And thank you all for bringing your thoughts and really what you're excited about and sharing that with us. Okay. And then we have this question what session formats do you think we should use an open ed 21. What have you seen work well. And I'm guessing. I'm guessing the Kansas was maybe from an earlier question like the where you're from question. Yeah. Yeah, and I think this question is especially important because last year, we were sort of flying blind in terms of what was going to be what virtual conferences could and should look like. But this year, we've all been to so many different events and we'd really love to learn from, from what folks have seen at other events that could be brought to open ed this year. So if there are any tools you've seen or formats. And the first couple responses were all around interactions like informal networking and allowing for interactions we have panels unrecorded discussions which is absolutely already on our radar. 10 minute pre recorded lightning talks which we did and I feel like that was very successful. 45 minute presentation so that's kind of an intermediate time. And then we have link sessions, seconding with the unrecorded discussions and formal discussions with small groups. I see in space networking. Hey Emily, to can and in space are some pretty cool platforms that I read I just got, I just discovered this week so I don't have other people have had a chance to preview these, but they're there, sort of they create that that virtual space where it's being in person and you can, you know, go from table to table and you can only hear the conversation at your table and that you're all in the same room. So I don't know if other people have suggestions for platforms that they've been discovering through this past year virtual work. Yeah, thank you Amy I appreciate that and it's really great to hear platforms that people have experience with that really worked well for them. I see Hopin on here. Is that another one of these platforms. Yeah, I think that's what CC Summit used more time between sessions, the tea time chats were lovely roundtables presenter opt in for recorded sessions so that it's not automatic to be recorded that it could go either way. Recorded lightning talks with a discussion forum for each. Consider holding sessions and discord pre recorded lecture with a follow up live question and answer with the presenter. If sessions will have breakout rooms we can list that up front. So I didn't get that whole thing. It looks like there's definitely interest in and being able to have unrecorded discussions and that really does more closely mimic our experience at conferences. Early and late shows were great private BIPOC channel and whatever platform we chat on. Okay, let's see. Oh, so knowing up front if there's going to be breakout rooms because some folks are multitasking and can listen but may not be able to participate more actively and don't want to just be leaving people in dead breakout rooms. So I think that's great to have options around breakout rooms, which is another suggestion right here. Gather group networking. Any other themes that I'm just not pulling out successfully as I try to manage all this information other things to highlight here. Yeah I see in the chat here that unexpected breakout rooms are not great for introverts. And, you know, certainly having unstructured breakout rooms can be challenging as well. But you know I feel like there's, there's a range of challenges as well as opportunities that breakout rooms can offer. Gather town gamer gybe. So I've got some more cool platforms and I'm, I'm just not the one to be up on platform so thank you for all of these suggestions, but definitely flexibility around breakout rooms is, is a theme here. It's really required. I'm seeing the lightning talk show up. Yeah, so it's really some fun ways that we could integrate pre recorded content as well as live discussions to integrate those two together. I'm also seeing time to meet and focus groups, like by institution type size or state of we are program facilitated space for brainstorming projects, or research projects, maybe a catch all collaborative document or folder where we can drop links to open access educational resources or other content, no pressure to attend everything. No time turners required. It is hard when we have these rich conferences to not be able to go to everything. Anything else there at the end that I wasn't able to get to that people wanted to highlight one that has pre center opt in for recorded session not automatic. So, worthwhile for us to consider to. I'm thinking, thinking very carefully about what's going to be recorded and what isn't, and, and how to make some of those choices more available happen has one P, I see in the chat. Okay. There will be a lot of spaces that we need to open up for different groups to be part of. So I think that also speaks to sense of belongingness, certainly, you know, a space for BIPOC folks to gather in a private space. That's important. Yeah, and I'd seen something on there about connections with non conference attendees maybe or ways to connect even beyond the conference. Let's see if that comes up again. Does anyone have one of these platforms that they really thought was amazing. Because there's several. Okay, so maybe encouraging non conference coordinated connections. Maybe how can we build this even beyond the conference. I see a lot of lightning talks. So, I see of the prerecorded lightning talks but then a chance to have a discussion I know we've run a few of those events after the conference was over but with lightning talks from the conference and those have been a lot of fun. And then in the chat I see it says I assume we're keeping the schedule, or I shouldn't even say it out loud. Yeah, so that is the plan as of now. We are not closed to other options but it worked reasonably well last year and they've added a couple of new features and you know I think sticking with with something that works is is wise. So encouraging non facilitated organic connections, getting back to that interaction piece that's so important that we have to be very intentional about because it's going to be an online conference again. Well, thank you all so much. Again, this is very rich and giving us a lot of excellent ideas to think about as we move forward with the structure of open ed 21. And in the chat. I will put that we could really use feedback as how can we structure the tags in our schedule to make it easier for people to find what they're looking for, and how we can add breakout rooms maybe as a tag so you would know going in. There is an expectation of a breakout room or not. Definitely some ideas for facilitated spaces for different sorts of conversations to happen. I'm also interested to think about as well. Okay, well Nicole, do you think we've exhausted that. Okay, so I believe I'm turning it over to Tiffany is that right. No. Winning. Sorry, sorry. So, I wanted to talk a little bit about the theme now. The, you know, the reimagining open education was the 2020 theme and now we're trying to figure out what 2021 should be. We did kind of narrow it down to three options that we felt embodied some of what the different committees that said they wanted to see forward and communities and that's open for all to open and beyond and from imagination to action. So we wanted to take time in this community meeting to get feedback from the community on what they like out of these three theme names and potentially ask the questions and provide feedback that we'd love to hear. So everyone could take a minute to think about it and then vote for the one they like the most. And just one quick mentee instruction. If you are in a browser, you may be stuck on the last slide just there's should be a button that says go to slide if you don't see the option to enter this. So, it's looking like open for all and from imagination to action. So people have kind of the skills have kind of stopped moving for a little bit. So we have from imagination to action and open for all pretty much at the exact same same area, which is hilarious I think one of our steering committee members actually predicted this might happen on the call similar to what was happening. So, yeah, lo and behold there it is the top two. It's at the same 6.3 and 6.4. The next thing that we wanted to kind of touch is any additional feedback or ideas realizing that we may not have thought of everything and you may have an even better idea so we'd love to hear feedback on the themes you just saw and then any ideas you may have for the next slide. Thank you. Oh, interesting. Okay, one with actions and already been a lot of action. A scholarship perception that that turns into committee members. The imagination might feel more unique to the conference. Okay, making open the new normal newcomers welcome. The first one was a little generic okay open for all as well to their imagination to practice. Interesting. That's really interesting. Open that starts in three days well paper 12. No theme open education is the theme. Yeah we did hear a lot. A lot of no thing and we added that to our list of consideration. The same guide anything in terms of the proposals are they really links. Yeah so last year's call for proposals was definitely linked. I would say correct me anyone this year and committee of long there is very much about, you know, how we can reimagine open education and I think we have a few seconds. I really tried to. Yeah, that's pretty recent. You said in the news okay nothing. When I'm pausing on this question, does the theme guide anything in terms of the proposals I think that's a useful thing to consider and the way that it worked last year is that the theme provided sort of the overarching. narrative of the conference so reimagining open education talking about how the fact that you know 2020 has gotten us all to focus more on on urgent challenges. New like COVID, some, you know long standing, like, you know racial equity, and how to reimagine open education as part of the solution to those problems, and that helped drive sort of the themes that were selected for the the different proposals, I think, you know, sessions don't need to necessarily directly address the theme we didn't require that last year, but we did encourage it is sort of the spirit of the sessions, and to build off from what Nicole has just mentioned about reimagining open ed last year was also a time for us to reimagine it considering that it was our first virtual conference so it also speaks to the manner in which we are all gathering virtually so. And I think we did well because it was very successful so yeah. I think one question that I'm seeing here is, is there a benefit to having a theme when we're very clearly the open education conference. And so there's some argument in these. One of the responses that some people don't feel like we need a theme. And I think other people by proposing themes are suggesting that some people do like the idea of a theme so I think it's interesting that our community holds a diversity of thoughts as to whether there's a benefit to having a theme for the conference. In my mind, there's maybe a chance to do some unique year, you know, marketing and it's a way to have the different year iterations of the conference have something special about them or something that's a little unique, even though we do keep revisiting open education every year. And so in my mind I feel like I do see a benefit to having a theme, even if it's a very broad theme that is inclusive of this broad community. There are quite a few no themes in here. Speaking open the new normal. And in the chat I see. Could there be a central theme that matches up with a suggested track of presentation slash events through the conference, but still be presentation slash events that don't totally line up with a theme. And that certainly is a possibility. I don't think that, you know, I don't think a criteria of last year was potentially the theme. Yeah, it's just that it's there to provide a direction if proposal, maybe even more. More proposals would come as directed on that theme of reimagining potentially, but I don't think that we rejected any base. It provides direction and focus. I think the criteria for the evaluation of proposals has to be like, it's not even in there. It doesn't have to like, totally align with the team. So, because that's a clue exclusionary. And we don't want to be that so it doesn't have to. Also in the chat that the theme could help drive some keynote selection. So what maybe what does the community want to hear about our focus on in the keynotes. So it's been counting all the K through 12 attendees. So, sounds a little like we want more kind of K 12 representation. From imagination to action is a nice next step from last year's imagining. I mean, but to the extent that we've had open edge as a, as a concept around for a while already now, perhaps, you know, fine tuning. Even the conferences appeal for that matter, towards specific theme would be great and I speak from recent experience at Cain University, I'm at Cain University. So we had an open education conference with a theme on diversity and inclusion. And to the extent that you know this is the time and year for, you know, that kind of theme. And also we want to expand open ed from merely about economic access to about thematic access, no thematic diversity. So if we chose something like that, that could even set people thinking about like you know how do we extend open ed to include more diversity in the curriculums and so on. And I know we're certainly very clear that we want diversity to be an important piece of open ed 21 and sessions supporting exactly what you talked about. So I think having kind of agree woven throughout all the decisions and every kind of session is important to the conference. Okay, I think that's great in terms of feedback. Any other last words that people would like to add to this will be sending out the minty link so if you think of a really full theme idea or just general feedback for the theme and you can kind of need to sit on it for a little bit no worries you can always respond to the minty link later. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and hand it over back to Lee for the wrap up. Okay, so this is kind of your your last option we're going to wrap this up. If there's anything else you'd like us to know or consider. Please go ahead and put this here. You know, feel free to to be honest. We'll pause for just a second for people to be able to make those notes and make sure that if your screen says go to slide to click that button before you submit so it doesn't go to the last question. So we're getting some thanks. That's wonderful. Last year was great exciting for this year. Good. Looking forward to working with everyone absolutely last year was really focused on community and connection and I think with everybody being at home I think that was very very valuable in a lot of different ways. Oh my gosh so appreciative for all the work you're all doing for structurally speaking feedback sessions this wonderful. The amount of sessions to choose from was a bit overwhelming. I think some of us get, you know, FOMO for for some of the sessions. When we have a lot to choose from less us driven. Great direction and expanding the community. Welcome for newcomers. Absolutely. Fantastic. Welcome session for newcomer multiple time zones. That was something that we did mention at the end. See more presentations about open forms of grading non grading more ways to open up the curriculum 20 of size, such top stakes on the CFP. So, when we release the recordings yes. And that may be a way you can prioritize is what's going to be recorded versus what's going to be live. So if you guys are interested in seeing later, later date, FOMO to no mo because because you can watch it all. That's right. I'm not sure what this is specific grad student thread something. Okay specific grad student thread. So, so maybe people doing specific research for their, for their own education mentor for first time attendees. I think there was a fair amount of commentary about mentorship, early career, we are, or we coffees. That's interesting. Okay, so we're we're approaching the last, the last part here so thank you for all this feedback. And thank you for all the feedback across across this meeting this has really been great. Definitely be something to look at and be great for all of the teams when we move on into programming and moving forward with planning this conference. Are we ready to move to the next slide is there still stuff coming in. Okay, so if you haven't joined us yet, please feel free to join us on social media it's a great way to keep track of what's going on and stay up with updates and be a part of the conversation so please go ahead and do that if you want to see me. And then our next meeting is going to be in the middle of May so join us then go ahead and put it on your calendars and make sure you can attend there and we'll have more updates and probably more questions for you at that time to so but thanks again for showing up and participating, and we'll see you next time. Don't forget to participate and fill out that form if you're interested in, and joining us and participate in building this conference to. So, if not, have a good day. Thanks guys. Thanks everybody and this recording will be posted on our website along with a lot of the resources that in data that was submitted here today.